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"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the situation in the Alstom group has been causing grave disquiet for many months. It is the future of Alstom’s 25 000 employees in France that is at issue. We have had to fight hard and our government has put itself firmly on the side of the Alstom employees. It was our Minister for Finance, Mr Sarkozy, who negotiated with the Commissioner at the time, Mr Monti, so that we could grant the aid that saved Alstom. It was of course a question of safeguarding the future of the employees, but also of saving a jewel in the European energy and transport industry.
This evening, we are talking about Vélizy and Stuttgart, but also about Brno in the Czech Republic and Setúbal in Portugal, and large numbers of subcontractors throughout Europe. Today, the announcement that 350 jobs will be lost, including 200 in Vélizy at Alstom Power Boiler, increases the worry for the employees still further. It is true that the weakening in the market for boilers is clear, but it is not at a level that would justify such job losses.
It is not down to the Commission, of course, to dictate the management of companies or to manage, on behalf of governments, social assistance for any redundancies. It is worth pointing out that Alstom Power Boiler is a leader in the field of the production of clean coal and is developing technologies for the capture of carbon dioxide. We are therefore not talking about a company condemned by ossification and obsolescence. Acceptance of its migration across the Atlantic or, even worse, its disappearance, is like looking at the future through a rear-view mirror.
The employees – and we must congratulate them for this – have developed a plan based around the concept ‘let us create the European champion in clean combustion’. They have, with the help of experts, developed a plan for the future covering all aspects: the legal structure of the new company, technological aspects, commercial aspects, social aspects. We must welcome this approach, which represents a refusal to cave in. It has been brought to the attention of the European partners: the Commissioners responsible for employment and social affairs, enterprise and industry, trade, competition, and environment, who are awaiting your conclusions.
Commissioner, today you must look ahead to the cultural and social revolution set in motion by the draft constitutional treaty. In future, social rights, with the constitutional treaty, will prevail over the perfection of the internal market which had the upper hand in previous treaties. Social dialogue will be institutionalised, but above all we must formulate an industrial policy that favours skills centres and will safeguard the social market economy proposed to us as a social model in Article 3 of the constitutional treaty.
The question being put to you today, Commissioner, is this: how do you see the future philosophy of the constitutional treaty? Do not be the clerk of the old Europe, but instead put in place the new Europe, the one intended by the constitutional treaty. You have a good opportunity to do so, by safeguarding the future of Alstom Power Boiler."@en1
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